The CIA is at war with itself. Yes, there are great people there, especially at lower levels.
The civil war inside the CIA might be between the jocks vs the nerds, but it is more realistically viewed as a war between nationalists vs internationalists.
The internationalists drew up the “Arab Spring” policy for spreading democracy in the Middle East. A similar plan was implemented in the Ukraine (Maiden Revolution) on a $4 Billion (public) budget.
The above has failed miserably. Ukraine has broken up. The Crimea has been annexed by Russia.
Egypt’s pro-USA Mubarak was overthrown by Obama’s Arab Spring backing of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Here at least the CIA’s failure was mitigated, as the Muslim Brotherhood itself was unable to hold power there.
Libya, however, is a clusterphruck. ISIS holds entire cities there because of the CIA’s ridiculous concept of “Spreading democracy” there even though Ghadafy had finally become a non-threat.
The CIA’s recent revolutions in Tunisia and Algeria started out OK, but both nations are now trouble spots because of Obama’s interference there.
The CIA’s Yemen policy resulted in the ouster of yet another pro-USA leader. It’s civil war continues. The CIA has been a complete failure here.
CIA policy in Lebanon was thwarted, as the Cedar Revolution played out differently from CIA desires there.
CIA+Obama’s policy in Syria is a nightmare. Massive, multi-million-refugee crisis from the CIA’s ridiculous attempts to oust Assad there...and NATO shooting down a Russian fighter jet in Syria has raised the prospect of a global thermo-nuclear war.
The above is because the CIA’s internal civil war between nationalists and internationalists has gender-sensitive and Affirmative Action placements in so much of the Agency that policies are ill-thought-out and their implementations are even worse.
Yeah, there are good people inside the CIA, but not enough good people there to prevent the bad actors from pushing the world to the brink of WW3.
Ukraine is on fire.
The Middle-East is on fire.
Russia and China have been provoked and are both enraged at the USA.
It’s bad.
The CIA did as ordered by president Hussein. Brennan is rumored to be a Muslim himself as is Valerie Jarrett, the Iranian Muslim.
I think you pretty much outlined obama’s goals.